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Maurice Sterne

Maurice Sterne (1878 - 1957) was active/lived in New York, California, Massachusetts.  Maurice Sterne is known for Figure-genre, still life, sculpture.

Maurice Sterne was born in Memel, Latvia on August 8, 1878.  Sterne came to the U. S. in 1890 and began his art training at the National Academy of Design and Art Students League in New York City.  After 1914 he divided his time between Italy and the U.S. 

An internationally recognized artist, he was one of the first artists to discover Bali and popularize scenes of that area.  He was a visiting instuctor at the California School of Fine Arts during 1935-36.  Sterne died in Mount Kisco, New York on July 23, 1957. 

Member:  National Academy; National Institute of Arts & Letters. 

Exhibited:  Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles, 1930; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1935 (solo); Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939; nationally and abroad.

Works held: Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute; Boston Museum; Detroit Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Cleveland Museum;

Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Who's Who in American Art 1936-56;
Who's Who in America; NY Times, 7-24-1957 (obit).


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Facts about Maurice Sterne

   Publications  Book References:  140
Magazine References:  0

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140 Book References for Maurice Sterne
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Embury, Stuart; Brandon K. Ruud; Norman Geske; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Introduction A Legacy of Giving: The Anna and Frank Hall Collection (The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
(Exhibition catalog)
80 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro) Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 246 Yes
2003 Stavitsky, Gail Artists and Art Colonies of Ridgefield, New Jersey 0 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1997 Luhan, Mabel Dodge Edge Of Taos Desert 334 No
1997 Phillips, Stephen Bennett Twentieth Century Still Life Paintings from Phillips Collection 120 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1995 Curtis, Jane and Will, Frank Lieberman, Carl Little (Foreward) Monhegan: The Artists' Island 192 Yes
1994 National Gallery of Art Sculpture An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)
283 No
1994 Reynolds, Donald Martin Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium 275 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)
495 Yes
1991 Watson, Steven Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde 439 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1989 Boyanoskji, Christine Permeable Border: Art of Canada and the United States 1920-1940 (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto) 70 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 La Cour, Donna Ward Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc 196 No
1989 Weber, Bruce Drawn from Tradition: American Drawings and Watercolors: From the Collection of Susan and Herbert Adler, Neuberger Museum
(Exhibition catalog)
185 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Green, Martin New York 1913 The Armory Show and the Patterson Strike Pageant 325 No
1988 Zurier, Rebecca Art for the Masses A Radical Magazine and its Graphics 1911-1917
(Exhibition catalog)
217 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Morrin, Peter (others) The Advent of Modernism Post-Impressionism...1900-1918
(Exhibition catalog)
200 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Huneker, James G/Arnold Schwab Americans in the Arts 1890-1920 672 No
1984 Broder, Patricia Janis The American West The Modern Vision 345 Yes
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
600 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Sims, Lowery Stokes The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
167 Yes
1984 Witt, David L The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary 63 No
1983 Adams, Clinton American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers 228 Yes
1983 Contreras, Belasario R Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art 253 No
1983 Gibson, Arrell Morgan The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies Age of The Muses, 1900-1942 305 No
1982 Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960
(Exhibition catalog)
195 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)
213 No
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 San Diego Museum of Art Catalogue of American Painting 240 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Phillips, Laughlin and Duncan The Phillips Collection In the Making 1920-1930 96 Yes
1979 West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings 202 Yes
1978 Fink, Lois Marie Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art 62 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1977 Everson Museum of Art Provincetown Painters 1890's-1970's
(Exhibition catalog)
289 No
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1977 Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward) American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection 256 Yes
1976 Ballinger, James K American Painting 1900 to 1932 From the Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
48 No
1976 Gerdts, William H; Jeffrey Hoffeld American Drawings & Watercolors from the Collection Susan and Herbert Adler
(Exhibition catalog)
82 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 School of American Research Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico
(Exhibition catalog)
41 No
1975 Chambers, Bruce W American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 127 Yes
1975 Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
272 No
1975 National Academy of Design A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975
(Exhibition catalog)
262 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1974 Gidley, Mick Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections 58 No
1973 Broder, Patricia Janis; Harold McCracken (Intro) Bronzes of the American West 429 Yes
1973 McKinzie, Richard D The New Deal for Artists 203 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)
1075 No
1973 University of Kansas Museum American Drawings and Watercolors 80 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Ostraw, Stephen/Susan Carmalt Rhode Island School of Design Bulletin/American Watercolors & Drawings 76 No
1970 Brown, Milton W American Painting From the Armory Show to the Depression 244 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Brockton Art Center Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums 48 No
1969 Museum of Modern Art Three American Modernist Painters Max Weber, Maurice Sterne, Stuart Davis
(Exhibition catalog)
148 No
1969 Museum of Modern Art Editors American Art of the 20's and 30's (Three Catalogues Combined)
(Exhibition catalog)
220 No
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1969 Richardson, Edgar P The Way of Western Art 1776-1914 204 No
1968 Kent, Norman (editor) Drawings by American Artists 127 No
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1966 Cheney, Sheldon A Primer of Modern Art 392 No
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
150 Yes
1965 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters 141 Yes
1965 Mayerson, C L/George Biddle Shadow and Light Life, Friends and Opinions of Maurice Sterne 266 Yes
1963 Chase, Mary Ellen; Louisa Dresser, Nina Fletcher Little, et all Maine and Its Role in American Art, 1740-1953 178 Yes
1963 Coke, Van Deren Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942 168 Yes
1963 Goodrich, Lloyd Pioneers of Modern Art in America Decade of the Armory Show, 1910-1920 94 Yes
1963 Whitney Museum The Decade of the Armory Show New Directions in American Art 1910-1920
(Exhibition catalog)
79 Yes
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1958 Cheney, Sheldon The Story of Modern Art 723 Yes
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)
72 No
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1954 Leeper, John Palmer Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute/Selective Catalogue 92 No
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1951 Metropolitan Museum of Art Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artist Associated with The Art Students League
(Exhibition catalog)
170 No
1950 Metropolitan Museum 100 American Painters of the 20th Century 132 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
60 No
1949 Swenson, Eleanor De Gustibus A Century of Taste and Criticism
(Exhibition catalog)
60 No
1948 Genauer, Emily Best of Art 182 Yes
1947 Lozowick, Louis One Hundred Contemporary American Jewish Painters and Sculptors 207 No
1947 Luhan, Mabel Dodge Taos and Its Artists 168 No
1947 Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman Treasury of American Drawings 176 No
1946 Gruskin, Alan D Painting in the U S A 223 Yes
1946 Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro) Contemporary American Painting 260 Yes
1946 Whitney Museum Pioneers of Modern Art in America
(Exhibition catalog)
48 No
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
320 No
1940 Hall, W. S. Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists 150 Yes
1939 Art Institute of Chicago Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
110 No
1939 Cheney, Martha Candler Modern Art in America 190 No
1939 Museum of Modern Art Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA
(Exhibition catalog)
320 No
1939 Watson, Forbes (essay) American Painting Today 179 Yes
1937 Editor, Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today
(Exhibition catalog)
78 No
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1934 Barr, Alfred Jr. (Essay); A Conger Goodyear (Intro) Modern Works of Art: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)
160 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
215 No
1933 Museum of Modern Art Maurice Sterne Retrospective Exhibition 1902-1932
(Exhibition catalog)
64 No
1932 Museum of Modern Art American Painting & Sculpture 1862-1932
(Exhibition catalog)
135 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1930 Jewell, Edward Alden Americans Modern Art 152 No
1930 Kootz, Samuel M Modern American Painters 183 No
1930 Museum of Modern Art Paintings by 19 Living Americans
(Exhibition catalog)
87 No
1916 Brinton, Christian Impressions of the Art at the Panama Pacific Exposition
(Exhibition catalog)
203 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)
281 No
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